Vacuum instability and refined limits on the Higgs meson mass

Paul J. Steinhardt

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(80)90568-7

Vacuum instability and refined limits on the Higgs meson mass

Paul J. Steinhardt

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Exact numerical computations of the decay of a metastable vacuum at zero temperature are presented and are used to calculate a lower bound for the Higgs mass. The dependence of the bound on the Weinberg mixing angle and on chiral symmetry breaking is analyzed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	147-150
Number of pages	4
Journal	"Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics"
Volume	97
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(80)90568-7
State	Published - 1980
Externally published	Yes

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Vacuum instability and refined limits on the Higgs meson mass

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